What: Public informational meeting on the Second Street bicycle accommodation plan

When: 6-8...

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What: Public informational meeting on the Second Street bicycle accommodation plan

When: 6-8 p.m. Wednesday

Where: Carnegie Room North, Lincoln Library, 326 S. Seventh St.

Details: A formal presentation will be given at 7 p.m. Displays, including typical sections of roadways, paint pavement marking plans and aerial mapping, will be available for viewing during the entire time. Representatives from Springfield public works, the Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission and the city’s Bicycle Advisory Council will be available to answer questions. Those who attend will be encouraged to complete a comment form or provide a verbal comment.

As part of the Springfield Area Transportation Study’s bicycle and pedestrian plan, the city of Springfield is preparing to make Second Street more friendly to bicyclists.

The city will hold a meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Lincoln Library to find out what members of the public think about the proposal.

The plan calls for changes to Second Street throughout the city, traffic engineer Lori Williams said.

The biggest change would be restriping from Dodge Street to South Grand Avenue to add bike lanes in both directions, Williams said.

Much of the street is currently two lanes in each direction. The plan calls for one wider vehicle lane and a bike lane in each direction.

Part of the plan is to eliminate on-street parking from Lawrence Avenue to South Grand, and that’s one aspect about which the city is particularly interested in hearing from members of the public, Williams said.

From South Grand to Laurel Street, bikes will share the road with other vehicles, and the city plans to paint “sharrows” — symbols made up of a double arrow and a bike symbol — on the pavement to make drivers more aware of the presence of bicycles.

The city repaints the lane lines on Second annually, Williams said, so there is no additional cost associated with the proposed changes. No major construction is involved, she said.

The work is expected to be complete by the end of July.

The city last year added combined parking and bike lanes on 19th Street from Carpenter Street to Griffiths Avenue.

“It seems like bicyclists are taking advantage, and it seems like we’re getting more bicyclists out there on the pavements,” Williams said.

The city also has added combined parking and bike lanes along most of Laurel Street and Interlacken and Greenbriar drives from Taylor Avenue to Koke Mill Road and hopes to work with the village of Leland Grove this year to complete its section of Laurel from west of MacArthur Boulevard to Chatham Road.